MB Devot

Mortimer Baidgent Devot
Born 10 April 1934
Chepstow, Monmouthshire
Died 9 June 1989
Pen name MB Devot
Nationality English
Citizenship UK
Education Eton College
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Genre psychic phenomena, natural history, forteana
Notable works A Microphone in the Hedgerow

Mortimer Baidgent Devot writing as MB Devot ( 10 April 1934 – 9 June 1987 [1]) was an English author, physicist, amateur naturalist and esotericist. During the 1960s and 70s his writing attempted to account for psychic phenomena as a result of electromagnetic fields and acoustic effects acting on the human brain. In later life, he pursued a synthesis of his early theses and his newer interests in the seemingly diverse subjects of folklore, natural history, psychoacoustics and eternalism.[2]

Bibliography

A partial bibliography of Devot's published books and academic papers.

Year of publication Title Publisher
1959 Peculiarities of The Human Ear Self-published
1964 Medium Bowes and Bowes (Cambridge)
1968 The Tangled Beams Bowes and Bowes (Cambridge)
1970 Spirits of Field and Hearth Andrew Melrose (London)
1979 Mathematical Auguries Johnston & Bacon
1987 A Microphone in the Hedgerow Self-published

References

  1. The Times 12 June 1987 "MB Devot"
  2. Fortean Times #53 Autumn 1989 "MB Devot, A Life in the Hedgerow"


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